Chapotraphouse

How much is that worth now?

Pay us thousands of dollars for the shittiest tickets, also, please give us all your social media and fking dna for immigration too, also we might just fucking deport you because you're too brown lol lmao

Good Friday, 2033

It was Friday, March 29th 2033, Good Friday, and the nation's picnic parks and beaches and shopping malls were jammed with sweaty vibrant Americans all celebrating the 2000th anniversary of Christ's death on the cross.

There were balloons and hot dogs and cotton candy and carnival rides and warm, sweet apple cider.

Parents enjoyed the spring weather with tiny toddlers swinging from their shoulders and everyone wore loose and colorful clothing.

In Washington DC the president, an enormous lumbering man ravaged by various degenerative skin diseases, paced circles into the maroon carpet of the oval office.

Vice president Friend the Robot sat nearby, silent, watching, tapping his metal fingers on the presidential coffee table.

Earlier, the president had spent most of the morning in the men's room passing sperm and snorting a fine white powder which he thought was drugs but which later turned out to be ground up human skull.

Now, the tension in the forehead was forcing tiny beads of sweat out of his pale white scalp and down the back his neck.

His hands wobbled in his pockets.

At precisely 5 o'clock the sound of tolling bells spilled across the White House lawn and in through the open window.

The president spun sharply on his heels and Friend tilted his head slightly and began to rise from his seat.

Outside they could hear the sound of a seething, expectant, happy nation.

The president shot a glance towards Friend's sidearm, holstered to his hip and, for a brief moment felt he was going to vomit and crash into the floor.

The curtains drew in a tiny breeze from the west and Friend ushered him towards the balcony.

He walked out slowly and deliberately, head hung low and over towards the parapet.

A special podium had been installed here just for this occasion and weakly now he climbed its two wooden stairs, stopping for a moment to deliver some husky phlegm into a presidential hanky he carried at all times.

Then, he stood a second, eyes closed, running several thick, fat fingers through his tight and dirty hair.

When he opened his eyes again he surveyed the endless sea of fresh young faces in front of him spilling out over the lawn and down either way on Pennsylvania avenue.

He glanced over at the vice president, now with metal fingers hovering over the side holster, ready to draw at a split second's indecision.

The president grasped the microphone in front of him like an asp.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he wheezed, turning now for the first time to face an enormous fleshy rendering of Jesus directly above and behind him, dripping as it was with the blood and ooze of 2000 years of nail wounds.

"You filthy dogshit liar. You filthy fucking dogshit liar!"

And the applause rolled in like cloudbursts.

And after all was said and done, after everyone had left the public areas to return home and eat pie, Friend placed a knowing electronic hand on the president's shoulder and the two of them returned indoors to make love.

The End

Source: Explanation of Vote on the Resolution Titled “Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel - United States Mission to the United Nations

Someone please put this Satanic empire out of its misery.

So many people are saying my ASMR is the BEST. Incredible whispers. Tremendous tapping. Sleep experts can’t believe it. We tried microphones from China - terrible - so we use the BEST American microphones. Very soothing, very powerful.

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Around the fire, we try to keep warm in the harsh cold. Our family actually does not have our own tent; we live with another family in their tent and only sleep there, while the rest of the day we spend outside.

Every moment in the cold and rain reflects the hardship we are going through, and we hope to find a small shelter for our family.

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The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), also called the small-spotted cat, is the smallest wild cat in Africa, having a head-and-body length of 35–52 cm (14–20 in). Despite its name, only the soles of its feet are black or dark brown. With its bold small spots and stripes on the tawny fur, it is well camouflaged, especially on moonlit nights. It bears black streaks running from the corners of the eyes along the cheeks, and its banded tail has a black tip.

The first black-footed cat known to science was discovered in the northern Karoo of South Africa and described in 1824. It is endemic to the arid steppes and grassland savannas of Southern Africa. It was recorded in southern Botswana, but only a few authentic records exist in Namibia, in southern Angola and in southern Zimbabwe. Due to its restricted distribution, it has been listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2002. The population is suspected to be declining due to poaching of prey species for human consumption as bushmeat, persecution, traffic accidents, and predation by herding dogs.

The black-footed cat has been studied using radio telemetry since 1993. This research allowed direct observation of its behaviour in its natural habitat. It usually rests in burrows during the day and hunts at night. It moves between 5 and 16 km (3 and 10 mi) on average in search of small rodents and birds. It feeds on 40 different vertebrates and kills up to 14 small animals per night. It can catch birds in flight, jumping up to 1.4 m (5 ft) high, and also attacks mammals and birds much heavier than itself. A female usually gives birth to two kittens during the Southern Hemisphere summer between October and March. They are weaned at the age of two months and become independent after four months of age at the latest.

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Learning about the USSR is so damn depressing

We are all so fucked

The uni didn't even properly publicize the new policy. It came out during a debate and the student newspaper published it.

“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”

Idk why but the air quality dropped 3x(300->1200) in the past 2-3 days again in Delhi.

Good thing that the has managed to label all anti-pollution protests as "Maoist" so nobody dares to protest anymore since the government can and will throw you in jail for a decade without trial.

Most people don't care and are out enjoying the weekend in this lethal air.

Just recently there was the news that Germany is taking in a whole bunch of donkeys from Gaza, and apparently even PETA (ever concerned about all life) made a post about the suffering of donkeys in Gaza and apparently were trying to get people to help in having them evacuated.

I began to dwell on a thought recently: are GAZANS trying to evacuate those donkeys? I recall that Gazans actually during this genocide have been hugely appreciative of the help that donkeys have been, even to the point of having a celebration in their honor; are donkeys being taken from Gaza BECAUSE they're of so much help to Gazans? I'm sure there's a large amount of other animals in Gaza such as cats that would also need help or evacuation, and yet the evacuation is of donkeys, an animal that has actually been of help to the people there.

I'm probably being paranoid, but I've certainly seen nothing from Gazans to indicate that they're trying to evacuate them, and certainly no other animals such as cats are being evacuated, so why donkeys?

Let's not jump to any conclusion about its intentions until we have adequate information!

Far too many houses too comfortable with ....

by Memet https://x.com/heruimillion/status/1999934742528139394

I've noticed people say, every time they see Israel commit a war crime such as when they dropped a missile in qatar or forced tons of people to strip down and gathered them in groups to stay that way, that 'well we did it too, are you saying we're also committing war crimes?'/'well we did it too, we shouldn't be upset because that would be hypocrisy'.

I know the immediate response would be 'yes, America commits tons of war crimes', but honestly I feel like they're somewhat baiting for that response because they know people will just shut their brains off if you accuse our government of war crimes; instead the appropriate response (and like....IN THE FIRST PLACE, those former arguments entirely skip the point) should be 'if a different country attacked us in the same way for the same purpose, would you defend them like you did Israel?'

I saw a video of a guy defending Israel attacking qatar with 'well they didn't attack qatar, they dropped a missile on a target who was responsible for crimes against them and a few civilians happened to be killed or injured; we've done that too you know!'

America harbors TONS of people who are responsible for crimes against other countries, are you entirely sure you want to tell those countries that these methods are valid? Among the people America harbors are the MEK for example, a terrorist organization that committed terror attacks in Iran. If the response then is that the MEK are not registered as a terror organization in America, then Hamas may very well not be registered as a terror organization in qatar either. Would we take the same stance if other countries behaved the same way with us?

International law isn't difficult, it's actually very intuitive if you even cared to think about it for a hot minute!

There are normal and valid anti-hypocrisy arguments to make, but to use the argument 'well WE did it too you know!' is one heck of a bizarre misunderstanding of the assignment.